Automatic stock-feeder.



110.857.2227. PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

' F. B. PIATT.

AUTOMATIC STOGK-FEEDEB.

APPLICATION FILED MAE. 5. 1906.

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PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

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F. B. PIATT, AUTOMATIC STOCK FEEDER. APPLICATION FILED MAB. 5. 1906.

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FRANK BRYDEN PIATT, OF HAMILTON, KANSAS.

AUTOMATIC STOCK-FEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed March 5, 1906. Serial No- 304,281-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK BRYDEN PIATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, in the county of Greenwood,

State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Stock-Feeders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to that class of devices whereby the care and feeding of live stock is eifected with great facility and convenience, and the invention consists in the mechanism herein specifically described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, and on which like reference characters indicate similar parts on the several figures, Figure 1 is a side view of the improvements with the parts in normal position; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same partially broken away'to show interior construction; Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal and substantially central sectional view Fig. 4 is an end view showing the housing for the operating devices in an open position, and Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical sectional view.

In the preferred embodiment of this invention and as illustrated by way of example the-device comprises a feed trough 0 adapted to receive grain or like feed from the superposed feed box 6, having a hinged cover a. The bottom I) of the box is provided with a series of spaced apertures I) through which the feed passes at the will of the operator. Located directly above the said bottom is a gage plate 6, provided with a similar series of spaced apertures This gage plate is adapted to be moved longitudinally of the box so that the two series of apertures may coincide or register so as to permit the feed to pass into the feed trough. The said apertures, however, are so arranged that by movement of the gage in the opposite direction, the apertures in the bottom of the box 'will be closed to prevent the flow of material out of the box. As a convenient means for moving the gage plate there is provided a link 9 attached in any convenient manner; to the said gage plate and projecting through a passage 9 in the end of the box, and provided further with a vertical eye g at its outer end. To a suitable support 2' is pivoted a hand lever h and which lever passes; vertically through the said eye g. Hinged to the end of the box is a housing (1 shown as semi-cylindrical in general contour, which normally incloses the operating lever aforesaid, and is held closed by any suitable means, such as a hook 2. The cover of the box is made of complementary sections hinged together, and severally secured to the box by a plurality of hooks 1, as plainly indicated in the several views of the drawings.

In the bottom of the box are provided a number of flaring cleats m, the surfaces of which incline toward the longitudinal center of the box, so as to direct the feed toward the exit apertures The feed trough c is provided with a plurality of beams or supports is upon which the feed box is supported, and p the beams at the ends of the trough are secured thereto by suitable means such as bolts 3. 7

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is The hereindescribed stock feeder comprising, in combination, a feed trough, a feed box thereover having a removable top consisting of two complemental sections hinged together and having in its bottom a series of spaced feed apertures, a gage plate to normally close the aforesaid apertures and having a similar series of apertures and located directly above the said bottom, means connected with the gage plate to cause the two series of apertures to register, said means con sisting of a link having an end eye and a lever pivoted to a fixed support and projected through said eye, and a semi-cylindrical hinged housin for said lever.

F RANK BRYDEN PIATT. Witnesses:

HARRY BROWNING, MARK SHEPARD. 

